ArcheAge Korean OBT Dates!
Here’s what you’ve all been waiting for!
OBT STARTS: Jan 2, 2013
Early character creation: Dec, 19 – Dec, 30
Client download available: December 17, 2012
Get excited! 
Source: http://openboard.kr/News/8628
Press Release: ArcheAge parody video is a hit?
This is the most unusual ArcheAge press release we’ve ever received, so we’re just going to copy it over here and let you read it for yourself:
“ArcheStyle”
I wanted to you a head up about an UCC video made by one of ArcheAge CBT5 players. This video parodied the music video of “Gangnam Style”, a new single released by a Korean rapper Psy, and is now probably ‘THE’ video to watch.
“Gangnam Style” syndrome was even introduced in CNN about how huge this video is now internationally.
Check below to see the full music video of “Gangnam Style”. It is hilarious and the song and the dance is very addicting even if you don’t understand the lyrics. It is recording nearly 50 million hits in Youtube.
One of ArcheAge players parodied the music video and made an ArcheAge version of it as“Arche Style”. You can see that the user went around the various zones in ArcheAge and used emotional actions to make this UCC to synchronize the original video.
Check the below images to compare the “Arche Style” UCC video and the original“Gangnam Style” video.
In ArcheAge CBT4 another user made an “ArcheAge Move” UCC video parodying the video made by STA Travel Australia which explored world’s famous places.
It seems that more and more users are finding out their own way of enjoying ArcheAge.
New Video, Japan Publisher Announced
In 2009 GameOn signed a publishing contract with XLGAMES for an unannounced game. No one was really paying attention at the time, but when ArcheAge was officially announced in early 2010 the puzzle pieces seemed to fall into place. *
Now we know for sure the plans that GameOn has for ArcheAge in Japan. NeoWiz, GameOn’s parent company, plans on reviving a social gaming platform named “Pmang” to distribute and support the game. It seems their plan is to combine Korea’s Pmang with Japan’s GameOn to boost sales and territorial coverage. There’s even talk of NeoWiz taking the platform worldwide!
Anyhow, join us in welcoming Japan’s gamers into the global ArcheAge community!
The future for ArcheAge in other territories looks even brighter now. What will the rest of the year bring? We can only hope that North America’s and Europe’s publisher will be revealed soon as well.
Thanks goes to ArcheAge-Online.de for watching the GameOn livestream and catching this information!
*The GameOn deal was mentioned in XLGAMES press releases, like this one: http://archeage-online.com/post/1718108661
About XLGAMES
XLGAMES Inc. was founded by CEO Jake Song in 2003, and since then has developed an online racing game called XL1 in 2005, and is currently developing the next-generation MMORPG, ArcheAge, from 2006. The company was certified as Innovative Business (INNO-BIZ) and registered as Venture Company in May 2007. In 2009, XLGAMES signed a publishing agreement with GameOn for the service of ArcheAge in Japan, and in 2010 with Tencent and GigaMedia for China and Taiwan respectively. In November 2010, ArcheAge was showcased at G-Star, the largest game exhibition in Seoul, Korea.
Additionally, a couple days ago XLGAMES uploaded a new video to their YouTube channel which details changes made the Rainbow Fields area based on CBT4 feedback.
ArcheAge CBT4 wrapped up, now what?
ArcheAge’s fourth closed beta test started nearly three months ago on December 8th. It ran all the way until the beginning of this week.
Over those 95 days 173 guilds were founded, around 3400 houses were constructed, over 130,000 livestock were sold, and 750,000 pine trees, 660,000 strawberry bushes, and 2,200,000 other trees were planted.
That in and of itself is pretty amazing, but what’s more important to XLGAMES than those metrics is the feedback they received from testers in the CBT4 forums. Over the span of 95 days, 40 full patches were pushed out and 260,000 posts were made in the forums. Some of those patches were considerably complicated, including the addition of new bosses (Kraken), Christmas-themed events in December, the pirate faction, the family system, castle seiges, creative new mounts, underwater gathering and agriculture, and more!
According to ThisIsGame Global, XLGAMES now has a lot of feedback and material to work with as it continues to improve its first and biggest game:
“We deeply appreciate the testers who participated in the long test of an incomplete game. Later schedules will be announced as soon as we finish reviewing the test,” said Yong-Gon Kim the director of marketing team of ArcheAge.
Here’s XLGAME’s final official CBT4 video. It’s pretty amazing to see the before and after images of the housing areas, which appear to be barren plains before being covered in bungalows and trees.
And a couple CBT4 players from the international community have uploaded videos of test’s final big event, a party on a giant yacht! The after-party consists of folks dancing and sometimes poking each other with swords.
So what happens now? The same thing that happened after CBT3 and CBT2 and CBT1: we wait for word of the next test while XLGAMES’ tired employees get a bit of well-deserved R&R.
Stay tuned to ArcheAge-Online.com for news and info, and like us on Facebook or Twitter to stay connected!
AA Video 7 + CBT4 Reviews and Articles
The past couple weeks have been a whirlwind of activity for XLGAMES and ArcheAge fans. With the fourth closed beta wrapping up next month, everyone’s excited to see what comes next! XLGAMES is gave fans a preview of what they’ve been working on in the following video uploaded today:
If you’re looking for a comprehensive review of ArcheAge’s CBT4, ArcheAgeSource moderator Entaro has exactly what you want! He’s cooked up a lengthy document that describes the beta’s new or improved features and even tracked down some videos to help illustrate his points. However, with two weeks added on to CBT4′s schedule and the end of the test (March 11th) coming up soon, some finer points of the review are subject to change. It’s a great read regardless, so check it out!
ArcheAge CBT4 Review and Extensive Game Info by Entaro – ArcheAge Source
It’s rare that a developer lets so many players into the game design process at such an early stage of development and allows full non-disclosure of the games features.
XLGames has stated that they’re designing ArcheAge with the idea of it being very social. Everything they’ve done so far both in game and the tools that they’ve provided on the official page have shown that they really care about creating a solid community and getting feedback on their game.
Finally, Giuseppe Nelva on DualShockers.com and Jef Reahard and other editors on Massively.com have both been following our news feed here pretty religiously, and we would like to take the time to thank them for their continued support. We also want to thank all of the various European game news sites for their support, as well as all ArcheAge’s Facebook fans and Twitter followers.
The more people around the world that know about ArcheAge, the better!